Young In America

Well, we were young and always looking up
And passing out up in the parking lot
Those were the nights but now they've come and gone, my dear
My dear

It's 2 AM before the afterglow
And all those nights just seem so long ago
Banging my hands up on the stereo
Nowhere, nowhere

My heart plays the songs of my lost years
My scars are a church for my own fears
My body's a wreck but I don't care
I swear

So say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn when you're young in America
I don't want to let you down, luck will come around
We can get a ticket out somehow
That's all I am, that's all I ever was
So say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn

We were young, full of bad decisions
And MTV was on your television
And all we had was a bland ambition
Again, again
You're waiting tables up in Emerald Heights
I play the Steamboat every Friday night
Two kids from nothing, guess we did alright
My dear, my dear

My heart plays the songs of my lost years
My scars are a church for my own fears
My body's a wreck but I don't care
I swear

So say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn when you're young in America
I don't want to let you down, luck will come around
We can get a ticket out somehow
That's all I am, that's all I ever was
So say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn

When I still hear you singing on the old tape deck tonight
And I don't think I'll be sleeping 'cause I just can't close my eyes
But I'll close my eyes

Say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn when you're young in America
I don't want to let you down, luck will come around
We can get a ticket out somehow
That's all I am, that's all I ever was
So say a prayer, gotta lift me up
Goddamn, Goddamn, Goddamn